No growth trend in number of flights to city: Margani Bharat Ram

Rajamahendravaram: Union Minister for Civil Aviation Hardeep Singh Puri has said that no airline so far has shown interest to operate flights to Rajamahendravaram from Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai. The airport is handling nine flights each of arrival and departure but there is no growth trend in the number of flights observed over a period of eight months, he said.

Replying to the questions posed by YSRCP MP Margani Bharat Ram in the ongoing Parliament session about Rajamahendravaram airport, the minister also added that there is no proposal of air connectivity to major cities from Rajamahendravaram.

Earlier, the MP asked him about the increase of flight services from the existing nine flights of arrivals and departures and operation of flights to metros in the country etc. The MP underlined the need to increase flight services as the air traffic is increasing month by month from Rajamahendravaram airport as it is centrally located between Amaravati and Visakhapatnam.

Speaking to The Hans India, MP Margani Bharat Ram said he posed questions such as details of S-400 deal with Russia and USA and time of delivery of S-400, educational free loans to SCs/ STs /OBCs and economically backward to pursue their higher education, providing 33 per cent reservation for women as per the pending bill and Oil India Limited's onland discovery survey in Krishna-Godavari Basin in Andhra Pradesh with over three billion cubic metres of recoverable reserves.

Some more questions will also be posed in the present session which will be concluded by the end of July. He is availing every opportunity to obtain information relating to various issues, Bharat averred.